reaperman

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by reaperman 1y ago
Your comments reminds me of “ Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses” https://gist.github.com/almereyda/85fa289bfc668777fe3619298b...
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by reaperman 1y ago
Yes, crude oil / gasoline / diesel will break down polyethylene grocery bags.
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by reaperman 1y ago
Eventually it made sense that boat-speed only changes the "apparent wind", as it's only simulating wind-boat interactions, not water-boat interactions.
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by reaperman 1y ago
Amazon Sidewalk can also be used - it automatically finds devices on other networks (like your next-door neighbor) and sends data through their devices in case you don't connect your device to your own network. https://www.a
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by reaperman 1y ago
Products are often cheap enough that the labor costs are too high compared to getting a new unit. It would generally work for appliances that are built into a house or hard to transport because then the relative cost would be offset by the
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by reaperman 1y ago
Yes, it's more of a convention where we assume language like "...ignoring the trivial case of 1 being an obvious factor of every integer." It's not interesting or meaningful, so we ignore it for most cases.
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by reaperman 1y ago
There have been many periods in US history where sets of laws were purposefully created that criminalized activities that nearly ~100% of the population engage in. The intent of those isn't to stop those activities, and there's no
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by reaperman 1y ago
Slick deals: https://slickdeals.net/f/18256009-milwaukee-m18-redlithium-x...
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by reaperman 1y ago
Normally I dislike these quips for HN; I hate that I love this one.
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by reaperman 1y ago
> Roulette, no way to gain an advantage over the house regardless of what strategy you use. These days that’s probably true but it has been done: https://www.roulettestar.com/people/joseph-jagger/
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by reaperman 1y ago
> The paper itself is behind a paywall so I can't see it https://archive.org/details/s41586-025-08759-9
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by reaperman 1y ago
Only place this falls apart is that Accenture / Deloitte are really not sexy. Like being a federal employee at a similar pay scale would actually be more sexy. McKinsey/BCG maybe this makes sense.
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by reaperman 1y ago
TSA (more accurately - CBP, more generally - DHS) contract out the hard engineering to Cellebrite and NSO Group. Those companies develop a dumb-proof box. The CBP agents at the border take the phones, plug them to the box, press a few butto
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by reaperman 1y ago
The statistical methods can detect things orthogonal to performance KPI’s. Automation has “tells” - little things they do differently from what humans would do. Reliably discriminating those signals is a hard problem.
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by reaperman 1y ago
Huge thank you for correcting me. Do you have any good resources I could look at to learn how the previous CoT is included in the input tokens and treated differently?
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by reaperman 1y ago
Very, very little labor is unskilled. In almost any work there is a massive difference in quality and speed between someone who has been doing it for <6 months vs. someone who has been doing it for >3 years. My theory is that "un
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by reaperman 1y ago
Edit: 'wahnfrieden corrected me. I incorrectly posited that CoT was only included in the context window during the reasoning task and later left out entirely. Edited to remove potential misinformation.
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by reaperman 1y ago
I'm sorry, what? Federal income taxes have not been eliminated. Trump can't even do that; Congress would have to, and they won't. The federal government currently collects on the order of $2.5 trillion in income taxes. These
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by reaperman 1y ago
I spent the past 30 minutes calculating this all manually using the sources listed below: The practical takeaway is that the average household will spend $3,488.27 more as a result of the tariffs. Clothes, furniture, toys will be (mean) 26.
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by reaperman 1y ago
I think you might be granting the administration too much benefit of the doubt. They aren't based on "tariffs + trade barriers", they're just based on trade deficit alone. https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki&#x
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by reaperman 1y ago
Here's a much more detailed analysis of the effects of the executive order: https://chatgpt.com/share/67ee10c6-4690-8006-83d7-8e9b22bccf... The practical takeaway is that the average household will spend $3,500-4,
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by reaperman 1y ago
You’re probably already on top of it but if your company doesn't operate the datacenter you’ll also want to estimate the carbon cost of cooling in addition to the electricity that the machines consume.
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by reaperman 1y ago
If it’s just the ads that are the issue, paying for YouTube premium would be a similar cost solution, and funnel some money to good creators. Towards a better Jellyfin solution, I wonder if adding Whisper and an LLM model could transcribe t
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Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Berm Peak Ranger Station [video](youtube.com)
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by reaperman 1y ago
> Are u talking about incurring technical debt from the generated AI code I think they're talking about the marginal cost and capital cost of running all those GPU's, as well as the capital costs of training foundational models
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The Flipper One is Coming [video](youtube.com)
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by reaperman 1y ago
Comparing HN to resdit is explicitly against HN guidelines. Though sometimes I think the only reason it’s never “true” is because Reddit is a moving target. Both HN and reddit get worse over time, so HN never catches up to how bad Reddit is
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by reaperman 1y ago
In a slightly different reality, most members might reasonably vote no if it was deemed too costly for the organization's budget, or if the champion of the project was seen as unreliable, or if there were genuine concerns with the chos
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by reaperman 1y ago
There appear to be enough loopholes and lack of enforcement that you can still piece a solution together: https://electricalproducts.com.au/incandescent-lamps.html?p=...
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by reaperman 1y ago
Thank you! I’m sorry I overlooked those files. I greatly appreciate this perspective and research. It’s clear that your company leaves no stone unturned.

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